What is the Beauty of God? -- Outside reading
Today I read an article by John Piper where he asks the question, “What is the beauty of God?” and he answers the question by saying that “beauty is what God is.”
Today I read an article by John Piper where he asks the question, “What is the beauty of God?” and he answers the question by saying that “beauty is what God is.”
This answer appears to be
extremely simple however I believe it is entirely valid and accurate. Everything about God is beautiful. His power,
wisdom, justice, and love are all beautiful.
However, these attributes of God are beautiful not merely in that they
are infinite and unchanging but in their harmony with one another. God is the foundation of beauty because of
the perfect and eternal interplay of His attributes and person. Beauty has
existed harmoniously in God from all eternity!
Beauty is simply what God
is. Before the creation of the world
there was no one and nothing but God. Since
He had no beginning, he was not formed or shaped by anything outside of Himself.
This is why God is the original pattern
and author of all other beauty.
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